Current Events > 8 out of 10 Girls in Nepal sleep in 'menstruation huts'

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https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/10/health/nepal-menstruation-hut-study-intl-hnk-scli/index.html

Nearly eight out of 10 girls in a region of mid-Western Nepal sleep in dangerous outdoor "menstruation huts" during their period, despite the practice being outlawed, a study has found.
The illegal custom, known as "Chhaupadi," stems from a centuries-old Hindu taboo that considers women and girls as unclean during menstruation. When women are on their periods, they are forbidden from a range of everyday activities and are often confined to "menstruation huts," where they are expected to sleep at night.

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This is a thing in the Bible as well.
God hates periods.

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Sounds like the Alabama of Nepal.

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McgeesAlice808 posted...

Thst was not what I was expecting at all

What... what were you expecting?

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This is obviously despiciable but treating menstruation like this is hisotrically pretty universal. Some native americans (Iroquois?) shoved all of the women on their periods in a big hut too. The prefix hyster- comes from the latin word for uterus.

TheDurinator posted...

This is obviously despiciable but treating menstruation like this is hisotrically pretty universal. Some native americans (Iroquois?) shoved all of the women on their periods in a big hut too. The prefix hyster- comes from the latin word for uterus.

It certainly gives a new meaning to the word 'hysterical'

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